Location

Kirgiz is spoken mostly in Kyrgyzstan, but also in neighboring areas of Russia, Tajikistan and China.

Speakers

According to the latest official figures, there are 1,452,354 million speakers in Kyrgyzstan,[2] and 233,321 speakers in Russia. No official figures are available for Tajikistan and China, but Comrie[3] gives an estimate of 80,000 for China.